When you feel stressed, anguished or worried, the best course of action is to cause a distraction.

Take a walk, call a friend, sing, stretch, play with your kids, or even dance! Do anything you can to form positive habits and stop allowing your emotions to control what you eat.

2. Create a Life Checklist

When life gets hectic, food is often the one thing you can’t stay away from. So to fight its power, you’ll make a “life check list”.

Write down each area in your life (home, career, love) and score it from 1 to 10 (1 = poor 10 = great).

Beside each score write down an action you can take to improve the score and situation around this area of your life. By improving other aspects of your life, you will stop making food your support system.

3. Stop Self Sabotage

Self-sabotage is far too common for emotional eaters. And by sabotage, I mean negative self-talk.

To overcome this destructive habit you must develop positive self-talk habits.

Tell yourself:

“I don’t need a cake to make myself feel good.”

“I am in control.”

“I can choose to eat foods that will help my body and not hurt it.”

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Thanks Steph. Those are 3 great tips you can use to start regaining control of your life and of your eating.

As a result, you’ll overcome the obstacles in the way of losing fat.

And Steph has more help for you. She’s created an entire free report dedicated to helping you here:

Craig Ballantyne is the author of The Perfect Day Formula: How to Own the Day and Control Your Life. Craig has been a contributor to Men's Health magazine for over 17 years. Today he teaches his gift to high-performing entrepreneurs how to squeeze more out of their days, increase their income, and make more quality time for their families in his Perfect Life Workshop and Work-Life Mastery programs. Craig used his own advice to overcome crippling anxiety attacks in 2006, and he'll teach you his 5 Pillars of Success so you can increase your income, decrease your work time, and live the life of your dreams. Learn more about Craig at craigballantyne.com

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